Old Jake's Gravy Saviour

Web Generation Gravy Salt

Old Jake's Gravy Saviour is gravy salt for "proper gravy", as good as Granny's,
and widely praised as a very good replacement for Burdall's Next Generation
Gravy Block, which was manufactured until December, 2000 by Space Foods Ltd in the same
village: Wymondham in Leicestershire, England. In fact, particularly with the
Stronger Stuff version, long-term users are saying Old Jake's is their
all-time favourite! Old Jake's has been in production longer than any
other currently available gravy salt. Ordering details are further down the page,
as are the online ordering options.

Old Jake's products are made with sea salt and, having the consistency of dark
brown sugar, they are easier to use than gravy salt pressed into a block. The new
versions of the old favourite are packed in a 250g plastic tub and will yield over 30
one-pint servings if made up as recommended. (It's better not to add salt to the
cooking water for vegetables, if you intend using it as the basis for gravy.)

The caramel colouring in the gravy salt simply browns the juices or liquid and adds aroma
and flavour without recourse to the flavour "enhancers" which give a "factory made" flavour
to so many foods. With their origins in Victorian times, the products are nevertheless
suitable for 21st-century vegetarians and will add that long-remembered touch to many savoury
dishes.

The Stronger Stuff contains 50 per cent more caramel, for those who want a bit more
oomph or a lower-salt alternative. 2/3 tsp of Stronger Stuff has the
same caramel strength as 1 tsp of Gravy Saviour, but 1/3 tsp less salt. You
can use less and save money! Some customers were under the misapprehension that the
name for Stronger Stuff must mean the product is more salty: it isn't!

As Gravy Saviour and Stronger Stuff don't intentionally contain flour or
cornflour, any thickening of the gravy is left to the chef. Some users reserve a
portion of their Yorkshire pudding batter for this purpose.

The products are labelled as having a two year shelf-life, but will keep practically
indefinitely. Please use a round-ended knife or a spoon to divide up the gravy salt
every now and then, and remember to snap the lid back in place. When you've finished
your pack the tub is suitable for use in a microwave, or to house a small child's collection
of "things which could be lost if not put somewhere safe". Some users donate their
empty tubs to local primary schools.

For great gravy (which just happens to be suitable for vegetarians and vegans), as the
first step in your meal preparations sweat a "mirepoix" of finely chopped carrot, onion and
celery in a dash of oil with a little water in a covered pan, until soft. Stir in some
flour to make a roux, and cook through. Add some Old Jake's gravy salt and other
flavourings, such as redcurrant jelly, mustard and port wine. Add unsalted vegetable
cooking water: one pint per person would leave half or more left over, to use as the
basis for soup. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Job done! With a deep
enough pot you can steam vegetables over the gravy, but the main thing to remember for meals
without a slow-roasted joint or bird, is to allow sufficient time, so start making the gravy
first – and use Old Jake's, of course!

Allergy advice: the products are mixed in a bakery, so may contain traces of
gluten-containing flours (wheat, rye, barley, oats, spelt), nuts, peanuts, and soya. I
am confident that any flour contamination is below the Coeliac UK guidelines and the levels of
contamination from other allergens are even lower, but if you are in any doubt about using the
products due to dietary restrictions, please err on the side of caution. The products
contain no meat extracts and are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Update, 18th March, 2018: Many thanks to customers old and new for your
part in helping to keep these niche "heritage" products available, both of which are currently
in good supply. Mail-order and online ordering details are
further down the page. I won't be able to dispatch priority and overseas orders received on
Thursday, 29th March on the same day – they may not be sent until Thursday, 5th
April. For UK delivery in time for Easter, please place orders with first and second class
delivery by Monday, 26th March; and orders with Special Delivery with Saturday Guarantee
and expedited delivery by Wednesday evening, 28th March (not too late, please!).
Please note that only the Special Delivery option has a delivery guarantee, and you are required to
contact me to arrange a PayPal invoice or bank transfer for payment, as the prices aren't listed
below.

Posted orders: I would be grateful if customers who ordered
between 23rd July and 11th September 2017 could contact me before placing their
next order. Please make cheques payable to Old Jake (not Jake Young, or Old Jake's), using black
or blue ink, with the amount witten in full on the left, including the pence (e.g. "Eighteen pounds and
seventy-five pence" rather than "Eighteen pounds 75p".) Cheques that are not payable to Old Jake
will not be presented, leading to a delay in dispatching your order. Please do not fold, staple,
pin or tape your cheque, nor offer live poultry. Supplying your landline number and/or email address
will help with any query about your order. Due to additional cost, if you have only provided a postal
address or mobile number, you will not be contacted should there be a problem with your order. The
personal information (i.e. contact details) you provide will only be shared with other organisations to
process your order.

Shop outlets: The most recent deliveries are listed below. Clicking on the links will
take you further down the page for opening hours and contact details and links to the shop websites,
where available. There should be a saving over the mail-order prices for shop customers, so please
spread the word and ask your favourite butcher, grocer, village shop, deli etc. to stock Old Jake's!

There follows what may appear to be a surfeit of information on how to order and the service level
you may expect for your payment. Any queries I've received in the past should be covered,
below. For most customers it boils down to three aspects:
• The more you order, the more you save.
• Allow more time for delivery for the lowest prices, or pay
more if you require your order more urgently.
• This is a one man band so there'll be times when I ask you
to bear with me: these should be signalled above.

Prices: Including postage and packing to UK addresses, per single 250g tub -
Old Jake's Gravy Saviour: £6.75 second class;
£7.25 first class; £7.75 expedited; £11.50 next day.
Old Jake's Stronger Stuff: £7.50 second class;
£8.00 first class; £8.50 expedited; £12.25 next day.

For two 250g tubs, including postage and packing to a UK address -
Old Jake's Gravy Saviour: £11.50 second class;
£12.50 first class; £13.50 expedited; £18.40 next day.
Old Jake's Stronger Stuff: £13.00 second class;
£14.00 first class; £15.00 expedited; £19.90 next day.

For one tub each of Gravy Saviour and Stronger Stuff sent to a UK
address -
£12.25 second class; £13.25 first class; £14.25 expedited;
£19.15 next day.

For greater quantites (with lower prices per item), please use the prices stated below, for online
ordering (including international orders) or, for UK orders only, print an order form
(PDF version). There's also a simple plain text order form which
should fit on a single sheet of A4 paper if you choose to print it straight from your web-browser, with text
size set to smallest (from the View, Text Size menu option for users of Internet Explorer) and with margins
set to 20mm or less, but without a Header or Footer. Recent versions of web-browsers should allow you
to "shrink to fit", if necessary, in the Print Preview dialogue. If opening the file in wordprocessor
software, the text will align correctly if you select it all and change to a fixed width font such as Courier
New. If all that sounds too complicated, then the PDF version is
your best option, provided you have a copy of Adobe Reader, which you most likely do, but if not then the Cool PDF Reader software (for Windows) is also free but, at less
than 1MB, a much smaller download.

Prices are reviewed in March each year, but may be subject to change in the meantime, so please don't rely on
an outdated order form you may have saved at an earlier date. Contact details are printed on the product
labels and the current mail-order prices are stated on this webpage; information found elsewhere may be inaccurate
or out of date. You should be able to make a saving by buying in person from the stockists
listed towards the foot of this page.

Please check the Posting Schedule below, and then make your payment payable to
Old Jake and send your cheque or postal order, unfolded and with no staples or pins, with a note or
order form and legibly written address(es) for delivery to:

Jake Young
53 Main Street
Wymondham
MELTON MOWBRAY
LE14 2AG

I am not set up to take card payments over the 'phone, and nor do I sell from the
door at the address above. Customers not wishing to send a cheque or use PayPal may
make their payment by bank transfer – please 'phone 01572 787 676 or email for the
details.

For posted orders it helps speed things if you also send an email with your name and
address, number of tubs ordered, delivery option and amount of payment to: jake@oldjake.co.uk.
Then I can simply copy-&-paste your address into my label-printing program and have
your order ready for dispatch. To make it simple for all concerned, please do not
indent the address or place it all on one line. A contact telephone number is also
helpful to have (occasionally orders are received with an illegible address). None
of your details will be provided to third parties for marketing purposes.

Royal Mail will not compensate for lost or delayed deliveries if the address is incorrect,
so please check, by entering your post code after clicking on the Find an address tab (opens in a new
window).

Orders with incorrect addresses may be refused as it can take 15 minutes or much
longer to confirm an address from the details provided. With posted orders, if a contact
number or email address has been provided, I'll try to contact you (I'm afraid I cannot
reply by postal mail, and that includes inquiries sent without a stamped, self-addressed
envelope). If you do not receive an acknowledgement email for your reply to an address
query within 24 hours, please assume your email hasn't arrived and 'phone me (01572 787 676)
with the required information. Dispatch of orders with invalid addresses may be delayed,
with the date of receipt of the valid address used to schedule
dispatch of the order.

Please double-check the value of your order before writing your cheque, as an underpayment
will delay dispatch as the date of receipt of the correct payment is used to schedule dispatch. This is fairest to all customers.
I'll try to contact you if there's an underpayment, if a landline contact number or email address
has been provided. Due to the costs of processing cheques, please send a single replacement
cheque for the whole order value – the original will be destroyed or, if requested, returned
with your order. If you are unsure of any aspect, please email or 'phone 01572 787 676 and
ask. Failing that, send ample payment, and any excess will be refunded. All cheques
payable to Old Jake, please, and sent unfolded, without staples or pins. Please write the
total amount of your payment in words in the left-hand space, as there have been occasions when
Bank staff have made errors when reading handwritten figures. Thank you, but it's no favour
to have cheques made payable to Jake Young. Cheques written in red ink won't be processed,
so you'll have a delay and the expense of sending a replacement, which should be written in black
or blue ink.

Posting Schedule: Please consult the table below for when your order should be dispatched,
under normal conditions. Most second class orders are dispatched on Thursdays. Please get in
touch in good time if you require an urgent Next Day delivery or delivery on a Saturday (at additional
charge) or any other particular day. Ordering Next Day after noon on a Thursday would usually mean
a delivery on the following Monday. Please bear in mind that I may be out, and therefore unable to
send an urgent order.

Class of delivery

Day payment is received (by noon for Next Day and Expedited)

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Next Day & Expedited

Day of dispatch:

Monday

Thursday

Thursday

Thursday

Monday

Monday

Monday

First Class

Day of dispatch:

Thursday

Monday

Monday

Monday

Thursday

Thursday

Thursday

Second Class

Day of dispatch:

Thursday

Monday

Monday

Monday

Thursday

Thursday

Thursday

Please note: First and Second Class
orders are usually dispatched between three and six days after payment is received.

Delivery: At peak times (Autumn/Winter) especially, please allow 28 days for
delivery apart from next day, expedited and international orders, which are placed ahead
of any current standard first and second class orders, for dispatch as soon as possible
(subject to stock being available and bearing in mind that I can usually only post on
Mondays and Thursdays). Any problems with production or dispatch (unless I should
be very unwell, or my PC has given up the ghost) will be noted in the highlighted section above. Orders for one or two tubs are
the thinnest packages (65mm or 2½ inches thick), but probably too thick to go
through many letter flaps. Orders for several tubs are usually sent at the same
time but may be split into packages of two or three tubs, with an indication of the
total number of packages in the consignment on the address labels. It's possible
for such orders to arrive over the course of a few days, even though they were dispatched
at the same time. If Royal Mail cannot deliver to you, a card should be left and
the package will be held at the sorting office for 18 days. If it is not collected
and so then returned to me, the same package cannot be re-sent and so no refund or free
replacement can be given. The current charge for re-sending one to three items with
second class P&P is £4.95 so if you know you are going to be away, please arrange
for your order to be delivered elsewhere or at a later date. Claims for loss or delay
can only be processed if full and correct address details have been supplied at the time of
ordering. Please allow 28 days after you have received confirmation of dispatch before
considering UK orders other than those with next day delivery to have been lost in the mail.
You are welcome to re-order at any time and assistance will be given for your claim against
Royal Mail for loss or delay, but please realize that a small number of packages do go astray.
Most turn up, eventually, but you should order with the next day option if a delivery is of vital
importance to you. If your order arrives in a damaged condition, please retain all the items,
including packaging and a note of the delivery date, and let me know as soon as possible, providing
photos of the package by email, as required.

Cancelled orders: the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2014 allow you to cancel
your order. Should you wish to cancel, please inform me by email or by letter within
two weeks of receipt of your order. Please return the item(s), which must still be in
unopened and good saleable condition, at your own expense using Royal Mail's Signed For Small
Parcel service, which costs £1.00 in addition to the value of postage originally used
(for a package of one to three items, Royal Mail Signed For 2nd Class costs £3.90).
A refund will then be issued, or your payment cancelled.

Online ordering: UK customers may make their purchase by credit or debit
card or bank transfer using PayPal. Non-UK customers, please see below.

PayPal should allow you to order with minimal fuss, and PayPal membership is well worth
having for convenient and secure payments to online sellers, eBay auctions, and for your
further purchases of Old Jake's Gravy Saviour! Be sure to remember which
email address you've used to open the account, so you can be sent a password reminder
if necessary. Just occasionally customers inform me of a problem using PayPal, so
reports of how these issues were resolved would be appreciated. If your first card
isn't accepted, it's best to try again in a few hours, rather than try another card there
and then. If you still have a problem, you should delete the account you've attempted
to set up, and start afresh.

Of utmost importance is provision of a valid delivery address. Royal Mail will
not compensate for lost or delayed deliveries if the address is incorrect, so please check,
by entering your post code after clicking on the Find an address tab (opens in a new
window). Please also correctly capitalize your name and address when entering them on
the PayPal page (or take a moment to amend them: you don't know how grateful all online sellers
would be!). Guidance on how to correctly format your address is available from Royal
Mail (opens in a new window). Unrecognized addresses will be notified to the purchaser,
and dispatch will be delayed, with the date of receipt of the valid address used to schedule dispatch of the order. If you do not receive an
acknowledgement email for your reply to an address query within 24 hours, please assume your
email hasn't arrived and 'phone me (01572 787 676) with the required information.

Due to the quirks of PayPal, if your address was not correctly formatted when the account was
registered, I believe I'm correct in stating that you need to set up an additional or Gift
Address. Having clicked on a price button below for your order, log-in to your PayPal
account, then click on Change above your name and address. Now (most important!) enter
a variation of your name e.g. using your initials or adding the salutation (Mr or Mrs etc.),
and PayPal will allow you to save the same address, but with correct capitalization.
(There's no need to enter anything for your county, but please CAPITALIZE your post town or
city, having checked that your address is correct at the Royal Mail "Find an address" tool,
linked above.

Orders funded by Bank Transfer (an eCheque in PayPal-speak) will be delayed by a
week or two for the payment to clear. Banks quite regularly block such payments,
no doubt to counter "phishing" scams. This will further delay the dispatch of your
order. On the other hand, you're welcome to contact me for details to make payment
direct, via Bank Transfer (without using PayPal as intermediary), for speedier dispatch.

"Next Day Delivery" is also available, using Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1p.m., or
a courier for 12 or more tubs. Please see the posting schedule
above, for the limitations of the next day service, due to my location and circumstances. I may
be able to take your package into town to post, ahead of my posting schedule, but in any event, if the
delivery is of particular importance to you please contact me (jake@oldjake.co.uk or 01572 787 676)
before ordering, as I may be away. Special Delivery packages need to be signed for, when
delivered. Saturday delivery; delivery by 9a.m.; and consequential loss insurance are available
by special request, at additional cost. To avoid having to wait in for your parcel, you may prefer
having it delivered to a collection point: these are usually convenience stores with extended
opening hours. As of January 2017, PayPal have withdrawn the option of adding a note when placing
an order, so please email or 'phone to discuss any requirements and to provide your contact number,
which is necessary for courier delivery of larger orders.

Non-expedited orders are placed in a queue and at peak times you should allow 28 days for
delivery. Even this cannot be guaranteed, but any problems with production or dispatch
(unless I should be very unwell or have a computer problem) will be noted in the highlighted section above. Under normal conditions I dispatch according
to my Posting Schedule and you should receive an email notification
via PayPal after your order has been posted. Please allow 28 days after you have received
confirmation of dispatch before considering UK orders other than those with next day delivery to
have been lost in the mail.

Please note that if paying by credit or debit card, your payment is completed as soon as
you have clicked the "Pay Now" button on the PayPal page: I have not taken payment
from your card account (you have offered it), and nor do I have any knowledge of your card
account details. If you change your mind about your order, please get in touch so a
refund can be arranged.

To order by credit card, or Switch or Solo debit cards via PayPal, select the number of tubs of the
product(s) required and then choose the postage option below. Clicking the price button will
take you to a secure PayPal page for payment processing. Alternatively, please make contact by
email, 'phone or mail with your order and address details if you would prefer to make payment by bank
transfer.

Orders to addresses outside the UK where a UK postage option has been selected
will be refunded promptly minus a 1 GBP (one Pound Sterling) processing fee.

Number of Gravy Saviour, 250g

x1

x2

x3

x4

x6

x8

x12

x16

Price each, incl 2nd-class UK P&P

£6.75

£5.75

£5.50

£5.30

£5.10

£4.90

£4.60

£4.30

Total price, incl 2nd-class UK P&P

Price each, incl 1st-class UK P&P

£7.25

£6.25

£6.00

£5.80

£5.60

£5.40

£4.10

£4.80

Total price, incl 1st-class UK P&P

Price each, incl expedited UK P&P

£7.75

£6.75

£6.50

£6.30

£6.10

£5.90

£5.60

£5.30

Total price, incl expedited UK P&P

Price each, incl next day UK delivery

£12.24

£9.85

£9.10

£8.40

£7.75

£7.15

£6.60

£6.10

Total price, incl next day UK delivery

Price each, airmailed to Europe

£11.35

£9.90

£9.65

£8.85

£8.70

Total price, airmailed to Europe

Price each, airmailed beyond Europe

£14.95

£12.90

£12.45

£11.55

£11.30

Total price, airmailed beyond Europe

Number of Stronger Stuff, 250g

x1

x2

x3

x4

x6

x8

x12

x16

Price each, incl 2nd-class UK P&P

£7.50

£6.50

£6.25

£6.05

£5.85

£5.65

£5.35

£5.05

Total price, incl 2nd-class UK P&P

Price each, incl 1st-class UK P&P

£8.00

£7.00

£6.75

£6.55

£6.35

£6.15

£5.85

£5.55

Total price, incl 1st-class UK P&P

Price each, incl expedited UK P&P

£8.50

£7.50

£7.25

£7.05

£6.85

£6.65

£6.35

£6.05

Total price, incl expedited UK P&P

Price each, incl next day UK delivery

£12.99

£10.60

£9.85

£9.15

£8.50

£7.90

£7.35

£6.85

Total price, incl next day UK delivery

Price each, airmailed to Europe

£12.10

£10.65

£10.40

£9.60

£9.45

Total price, airmailed to Europe

Price each, airmailed beyond Europe

£15.70

£13.65

£13.20

£12.30

£12.05

Total price, airmailed beyond Europe

Gravy Saviour & Stronger Stuff, 250g

1 each

2 each

3 each

4 each

Total price, incl 2nd-class UK P&P

Total price, incl 1st-class UK P&P

Total price, incl expedited UK P&P

Total price, incl next day UK delivery

Total price, airmailed to Europe

Total price, airmailed beyond Europe

Orders to addresses outside the UK where a UK postage option has been selected
will be refunded promptly minus a 1 GBP (one Pound Sterling) processing fee.

PayPal send me a confirmation email on completion of your payment, so please disregard
the request above, to those ordering by post, for your address and order details, unless
you particularly want to let me know about some aspect of your order.

International orders may be paid for by bank transfer or other means in UK currency only.
The PayPal payment buttons above handle the currency conversion for you and allow payment by credit or
debit card. International orders are treated as expedited, and sent as soon as possible. Any claim
for loss or delay can only be commenced four weeks after dispatch of an order, and is limited to £46.00,
so splitting higher value orders would be advised. Photographic evidence must be supplied for any claim
for damage. Please email: jake@oldjake.co.uk
if you have any queries.
USA customers: Please be aware that increased security measures in your country are
delaying postal deliveries to the States. At Christmas, delivery times of 18 – 22 days have been reported.

Wholesale inquiries are welcome. Please email: jake@oldjake.co.uk (or 'phone 01572 787 676) with details of the number of 250g packs you would be
interested in. If you are a personal customer who would like to buy the product locally, please suggest it to the proprietor of your favourite shop.

Stockists: it's best to check availability before travelling far, but Gravy Saviour
and in several cases the Stronger Stuff may be found at the following shops:

Bennett's Butchers of Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire.
Tel. 01507 441 434, closed on Monday afternoons during the winter. Drop by the nearby Sea Breeze Restaurant and ask for a dish made with Old Jake's!
Stocking both products.

Simon Hughes dropped by from
Melbourne, Australia to collect
his consignment of Gravy Saviour
(and advise on how to accomplish
the Tim Tam Slam).

Mr Keith Oldrey writes:

Jake's put the zest back in our dinner.
His gravy salt a certain winner.
On Burdalls we were bred and raised
Meat and two veg - God be praised.
For us a little fat but no cellulite
With Jake's Gravy Salt we'll be alright.
Add some mint sauce and a spoon
Sunday lunch can't come too soon.

Thank you, Keith!

Sending my Gravy Saviour far and wide
To join dishes roasted, boiled or fried
Like Santa, I could use the help of elves
But it's nice to hear from fans like yourselves.

For without you, and others between here and the USA
We wouldn't be enjoying gravy salt today.
To all of you, I raise my gravy boat in salute,
But please: Don't pour it on your fruit!

Mr Paul White of Illinois, USA writes:

We put some gravy salt with some water in the roast pan and cook the
roast in it. It makes even a mediocre piece of meat taste super grand,
and makes great gravy.

Thanks, Paul! And thanks for reminding us that a richer flavour can
result from cooking all the ingredients together from the outset.

Mr C. O. writes:

I grew up with Burdall's gravy block so when my Mum discovered your
Gravy Saviour I was delighted, after some years in the wilderness!
Happily, my girlfriend is now a convert too.

Mrs A. P. affirms:

Definitely the only good gravy salt around.

Mr J. C. writes from Dorset with an old Yorkshire dish for Tomato Bread:

Fry up tomatoes with a little oil till they become mushy and water is
driven out. Add a little gravy salt and then dip slices of bread in
the mixture. We've had it all our lives and it deserves publicity.

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For those who were wondering, there is no connection between Old Jake's gravy salt
products and Old Jake Ginger Beer. What started out as Old Jake Ginger Beer
is now, perhaps confusingly, referred to as Old Jake's. Incidentally, Jake
Young (supplier of gravy salt) has been making ginger beer since the age of 11 and
far prefers it to any commercial product.